Review | January 2008 | hbr.org STRATEGY STRATEGY by Michael E. Porter Peter Crowther SHAPE THE FIVE COMPETITIVE FORCES THAT Editor’s Note: In 1979‚ Harvard Business Review published “How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy” by a young economist and associate professor‚ Michael E. Porter. It was his first HBR article‚ and it started a revolution in the strategy field. In subsequent decades‚ Porter has brought his signature economic rigor to the study of competitive strategy for
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The correlation’s between Kaplan and Norton’s “Mastering the Management System” and Porters “Five Competitive Forces that Shape Strategy” are significant. Managers need to have a complete understanding of their company’s surroundings in order to change their strategy. These two articles combined could be considered a 2-step process in itself. Step one‚ analyzing the environment of an industry utilizing Porters Five Forces model and step two‚ following the five stages laid out by Kaplan and Norton
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1. Mr. Hilton stated that he thought product 103 should be dropped. In reviewing the statement for the period of January 1‚ 2004 to June 30‚ 2004‚ this idea is not supported. Even though product 103 continued to be unprofitable in 2004‚ Hilton Manufacturing Company did realize a profit of $158‚000 for the first half of the year by keeping it in production. By keeping product 103 in production‚ Hilton Manufacturing Company was able to spread out its fixed costs over three products instead of just
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“DEVELOPING AND FINANCING EFFECTIVE AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAINS” Experience from CRDB Bank Plc Samson Keenja‚ CRDB Microfinance Services Company Limited‚ Dar es salaam‚ Tanzania INTRODUCTION Agriculture is the leading economic sector in Tanzania‚ providing a livelihood to 80% of the population. It is the primary source of food and raw materials accounting for 50% of the GDP and a leading export sector. It remains important for achieving sustained growth‚ poverty reduction and rural development
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www.palgrave-journals.com/rpm Examining the determinants of room rates for hotels in capital cities: The Oslo experience Christer Thrane Received (in revised form): 7th November‚ 2006 Department of Social Sciences‚ Lillehammer University College‚ 2626 Lillehammer‚ Norway. Tel: þ 47 61 28 82 47; Fax: þ 47 61 28 81 70; E-mail: Christer.Thrane@hil.no Christer Thrane is Professor of Tourism in the Department of Social Sciences at Lillehammer University College‚ Norway. His research interests
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The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business increasingly has been viewed as a major cause of social‚ environmental‚ and economic problems. Companies are widely perceived to be prospering at the expense of the broader community. Even worse‚ the more business has begun to embrace corporate responsibility‚ the more it has been blamed for society’s failures. The legitimacy of business has fallen to levels not seen in recent history
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Starwood Hotels Introduction The Starwood hotel and resorts company is one of the largest and well-established companies in the world. Nine different hotel brands are owned‚ franchised or managed by the Starwood Company. According to their webpage‚ Starwood employed about 145.000 people in 2006. Furthermore‚ they made a total revenue of 5‚979 billion US dollars. (Starwoodhotels‚ n. d.) Because of its diversity and values as well as its constant modulation‚ Starwood is successful today and will
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Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical‚ harmonious valley‚ gently guided from a lamasery‚ enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia — a permanently happy land‚ isolated from the outside world. In the novel Lost Horizon‚ the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal‚ living
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National Competitive Advantage of China in Electric Mobility: The Case of BYD Corresponding Author: Kasperk‚ Garnet Center of International Automobile Management‚ RWTH Aachen University Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ gk@im.rwth-aachen.de Phone +49 241 80 93348‚ Fax +49 241 80 93248 Wilhelm‚ Jan Chair of Organization‚ RWTH Aachen University‚ Templergraben 64‚ 52062 Aachen‚ Germany‚ jw@im.rwth-aachen.de Wagner‚ Wolfgang Volkswagen Corporate University‚ China Cuipingbeilixiqu‚ 16Haolou-1Danyuan
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------------------------------------------------- Brief Description of the Organisation – The International Hotel Group The International Hotel Group The International Hotel Group started business with two small boutique style hotels in Melbourne‚ Australia. Over a period of 15 years it has grown to now comprise a chain of 20 hotels across 5 different countries in the Australasian region. This growth was a result of an acquisition of a small hotel chain and establishment of some new properties‚ mainly in Australia. The group
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